Of course, 14.5 million adults age 65 and older count on Social Security to keep them out of poverty, too. They worked hard for these benefits. As our colleague Josh Rosenblum recently wrote, “Americans pay for Social Security and Medicare through our payroll taxes. We earn them.”

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